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Epsom Derby-fourth Battle Of Marengo has joined David Simcock and is being aimed at the Group 2 Dubai City Of Gold on Super Saturday next week.

Simcock was at Meydan before racing on Thursday to supervise his new charge who was paddock schooling, having finished well beaten when last in the Al Maktoum Challenge II on his sole start for Ernst Oertel and only race on Tapeta.

Simcock said: "He did a nice piece of work on the turf the other day and has done everything we have asked of him. We have given him time to settle into his new routine and it is all systems go for next Saturday and the mile and a half race."

Battle Of Marengo won five of his nine starts for O'Brien, including the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial, but his form petered off after Epsom, being beaten at odds-on at Royal Ascot before finishing in front of just one rival in the Grand Prix de Paris.